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Health Information Technology to Support the Delivery of Chinese Medicine: The Design of a Chinese Medicine Clinic System

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Contemporary Consumer Health Informatics

Part of the book series: Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age ((Healthcare Delivery Inform. Age))

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Abstract

Often we assume consumer health informatics to be only focused on Western medicine; however, this is a limiting view. Consumer health informatics is also as relevant to other forms of healthcare such as Chinese medicine (CM). Key issues and considerations that should be considered when designing CM clinic system are presented in this chapter. These findings are particularly relevant to today’s healthcare challenges, as healthcare reform agendas consider options and decisions to ensure effective, efficient, and efficacious value-driven patient-centric healthcare solutions.

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    Catherine Han Lin

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    Dr. Angela Wei Hong Yang

  3. Building 80, Level 7, 445 Swanston Street, 3000, Melbourne, Australia

    Dr. Siddhi Pittayachawan

  4. Deakin University and Epworth HealthCare, 60 Baker Ave, 3102, Kew East, Australia

    Prof. Nilmini Wickramasinghe

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  2. The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

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Han Lin, C., Wei Hong Yang, A., Pittayachawan, S., Wickramasinghe, N. (2016). Health Information Technology to Support the Delivery of Chinese Medicine: The Design of a Chinese Medicine Clinic System. In: Wickramasinghe, N., Troshani, I., Tan, J. (eds) Contemporary Consumer Health Informatics. Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25973-4_11

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